Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind